“That line didn’t come out exactly the way I wanted it to,” he told Rolling Stone in 1984. “But, uh . . . I could easily have changed that line to make it not so overly, uh, tender, you know? But I think the concept still woulda been the same. You see a fine-lookin’ woman walking down the street, you start goin’, ‘Well, what are you doin’ on the street? You’re so fine, what do you need all this for?'”

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Yeah, it’s far from the best lyric Dylan ever created. But it’s a lovely song nonetheless, and at least its heart is in the right place.